British Shipbuilders and British Aerospace

asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list in the Official Report the names of those companies which are now wholly-owned subsidiaries, and which are partly-owned, showing the percentage shares, by British Shipbuilders and British Aerospace, respectively.

Note: The companies which became subsidiaries of British Aerospace by virtue of Schedule 1 to the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977—the first four in the above list—have ceased to be operating units as a result of the new organisation introduced by the Corporation on 1st January 1978, following the report laid before Parliament by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry on 6th December 1977. The remaining subsidiaries have either been formed since vesting or were subsidaries of the vesting companies.